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Datebook
Entries and corrections for the
Datebook may be submitted to The
Gamecock on the third floor of the
Russell House. There is a box designated
for the Datebook in the newsroom.
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The Counseling and Human Development
Center located at 900 Assembly
St is hosting a series of weekly
programs beginning Wednesday,
Sept. 13.
These programs include: "Psychomotor
Therapy for Helping Pro
iessionals trom iu:io to iz:io p.m;
Tat is a Feminist Issue" from 10:15
-11:45 a.m. and "Drop-In Self Hypnosis"
from 2:30 - 4 pjn. All programs
meet in room 212.
For more information about any
of these programs, call 777-5223.
The Academic Skills Program will
hold its first Drop-In seminar on
Wednesday, Sept. 13 from 12-1 p.m.
in RH 303. The topic is "Time Management".
The Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian
Association will hold their first meeting
on Wednesday, Sept 13 from 8-9
p.m. in BA room 364.
Sundays
Student Government Executive
Cabinet, 6 p.m., Witten Room.
Mondays
Alpha Phi Alpha Service Table,
11 a.m.- 2 p.m., Greene Street.
Sororitv Council. 5 D.m.. RH
Theater.
H Fraternity Council, 4:30 p.m.
Performing Arts Commission,
6:30 p.m., RH 201
Carolina Productions traditional
events, 6 p.m., RH 309.
Carolina Productions performing
arts, 6:30 p.m., Rh 201.
Carolina Productions special
programs, 7 p.m., RH 348
Tuesdays
Hillel, 7:30 p.m., RH 315. Contact
544-0607 for more information.
SAGE (Students Allied for a
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Greener Earth), 7-8 p.m., RH 302.
Dissertation Writing Support
Group, 3:30 - 5 p.m., the Counseling
and Human Development Center, 900
Assembly St., Room 212 or call 7775223.
Association of African American
Students, 6 p.m.
P.E.E.R.S. meeting, every other
week, RH 315
Carolina Productions ideas and
issues, 6:30 p.m., RH 348.
Carolina Productions cinematic
arts, 7: p.m., RH 201.
Wednesdays
Student National Pharmaceutical
Association, first and third
Wednesdays of each month, 5:30 pm.,
Coker Life Sciences building lounge.
For more information, call 544-0899
and ask for Sonia.
Young Democrats, 7 p.m., RH
315.
: Student Government Senate, 5
p.m., RH Theater.
Women Students' Association,
6 p.m., RH 203.
Academic Skills Drop-In, 6:30 7:30
p.m., RH 303.
Carolina Productions marketing,
6 p.m., RH 235.
Carolina Productions black cultural,
7 p.m., RH 348.
Carolina Productions concerts,
7:30 p.m.,RH 201.
College Republicans, 7:30p.m.,
Gambrell 250. For information, call
their voice mail at 343-7194.
Thursdays
Habitat for Humanity, 5:30 pm.,
RH205.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship,
7:30-9 p.m, RH 315.
Campus Crusade for Christ, 7
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Baptist Student Union: Heart
to Heart, 7 p.m., BSU Center.
Campus Crusade for Christ
"Prime Time," 7:30 p.m., RH 322.
Homecoming Commission, 7
p.m., RH 201.
Carolina Productions Homecoming,
7 p.m., RH 201. Contact Lori
Toland for more information.
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Associated Press
Parents may find it a little easier to put as
ey to send their children to college with th
state officials and North Carolina's larges
Under the proposed College Vision Funi
would be deducted-automatically each month
bank accounts of participating parents. T
would go to the state treasurer, who would im
under North Carolina guidelines.
Parents would be able to withdraw th
any time, but the idea is to wait until chil
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Seven states have college pre-payment p'
like those, the College Vision Fund does nol
tee to cover the future cost of tuition, althc
ents who don't save enough might be able t
from the fund. Loan details haven't beer
out yet.
A for-profit company in Winston-Salem c
ucation Financing Services will help develop
ket the College Vision Fund, the Charlotte1
reported. The company was founded in Mar
state's four biggest banks: First Union, Nati
Southern National and Wachovia.
Education Financing Services also wi
the software that calculates how much pare
Marijuana use
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Marijuana use among teen-agers has 111
nearly doubled since 1992, even as adults' w
use of all illegal drugs leveled off, the V(
government announced Tuesday.
Some 12.2 million people used ille- P
gal drugs last year, up from 11.7 milli m m
in 1993 and 11.4 million in 1992, said P1
the 1994 National Household Survey on w
Drug Abuse. The increases were not considered
statistically significant. P:
At the same time, 1.8 million teen- Vl
agers used illegal drugs last year ? the r<
vast, mainritv mariiuana. which the gov
emment survey says is on the rise among 01
young people after 13 years of decline. a
About 7.3 percent of teens ?1.3 mil- tl
lion ages 12 to 17 ? smoked marijuana P
last year. That's up from 4 percent two n
years earlier, the survey found. Until 81
19S2, youth marijuana use had declined d
every year since 1979. v
"Anyone who thinks we've licked the
drug problem in this country is living in a
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to save.
e money Monthly payments would
dren are ^ fr?m the parents' bank accc
ing would administer the acco
lans. Un- money to the treasurer's offio
; guaran- Tbe money would be manage*
ugh par- bnes state Treasurer Harlan
o borrow $32 billion of state employees
i worked Money is invested only in
government agency bonds an<
:alled Ed- bonds. The funds' investment
and mar- fiscal 1995, Boyles said.
Observer By comparison, if you owned i
ch by the stocks in the Dow Jones indu
onsBank, vested your dividends, you wi
28.5 percent.
11 design Caroline Powell, a financi
mts need Financial Associates Inc. in (
: among teen
fantasy land," said Health and Hu- d
tan Services Secretary Donna Shalala,
hose department conducted the sur- o!
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halala used the data to attack House- sj
issed budget cuts that would take $700 u
lillion away from federal drug-abuse ti
"ograms. The Senate is considering this A
eek whether to let those cuts stand.
"We hope they remember that drug b
revention is a national priority ot tne a
ery same order as clean water, good ii
lads and safe streets," Shalala said, f
Marijuana accounts for 81 percent
f the nation's drug use, and its rise a
mong teens reflects a growing sense f
lat marijuana is benign, said Lee Brown, \
resident Clinton's drug policy coordi- v
ator. Only 42 percent of teen-agers con- a
idered marijuana a dangerous drug,
own from 50 percent in 1992, the sur- v
ey found.
"Marijuana is not cool," Shalala told c
tudents at a Washington high school
'uesday. "Marijuana use is illegal, if s ?
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3 earned 8.44 percent in proval from th
and bank regi
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strial average and rein- ed, according
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Charlotte, believes par- state for the r
s on the rise
angerous, it's unhealthy and it's wrong."
To estimate the prevalence of the use
f illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco, HHS
urveyed a nationally representative
ample of 22,181 people last year. Drug
se was defined as taking a drug someimfi
in the month hefore the survev.
dnong other findings:
The proportion of teens who report
eing approached by someone selling
rugs in the month before the survey
ticreased to 18.9 percent last year, up
rom 14.4 percent in 1993.
Some 10.6 million people under
ige 21 drank alcohol in the month beore
they were surveyed. Two million
vere heavy drinkers, defined as those
vho had at least five drinks on five seprate
occasions in that month.
Among all Americans, 13 million
vere heavy drinkers.
Four million teen-agers smoked
igarettes, steady since 1992.
Pregnant women cut back on drug
ibuse during their pregnancy, with 1.8
r education
se greater earnings if they placed the
n other investments, like mutual funds
I that would concern me if I were a parng
my money to the state," she said. "If
it in a very conservative fashion ... you
nge yourself."
n't matter to Betty Wyrick, a teacher's
evonshire Elementary in Charlotte who
She doesn't want to risk education mon- n
L market because prices might be down
is to withdraw funds,
i her husband have been saving, but not
she likes the idea of a monthly deducsavings
account.
oout the bank deduction is that if you
>u don't miss it," she said,
e Vision Fund hopes to be ready to take
>y early next year. The fund needs aple
Securities and Exchange Commission
ulators. And Education Financing Ser
ising the $1 million it wants to get startto
documents filed with the Federal ReRichmond.
ig banks are contributing $640,000, and
is asking other banks and thrifts in the
est.
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percent using an illegal drug compared
with 6.7 percent of all women of childbearing
age. However, 5.2 percent of all
women with children used drugs, indicating
women resume drug habits once
their baby is born.
Some 1.4 million people of all ages
used cocaine and 500,000 used crack.
Rates were highest among young adults,
1.2 percent, but just 0.3 percent of teens
used cocaine.
The survey couldn't say how many
people use heroin every month, but estimated
there are 2.1 million Americans
who have used heroin at some point.
To back up the anti-marijuana message
to young people, HHS and "The
Weekly Reader^ will distribute anti-marijuana
educational materials to 5 million
students next month. Also, the government
is sending to 16,000 school districts
videos that can help parents discuss
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